References

The Phantom Carriage (1921)
An alcoholic father character uses an axe to break through a wooden door to get to his wife and child. Several camera angles and actions are replicated, down to the shape of the hole in the door..

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
(TV Series)
Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on the TV program "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962-1992).

Nightmare (1981)
The date/day shown after each 'chapter', in a similar manner as shown in "The Shining", also the famous scene where a mad man breaks a hole in a door and later on reaches his hand in to try and open the door.

Poltergeist (1982)
Carol Anne wakes up at 2:37 and meets the ghosts, referencing Room 237 from The Shining

Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Towards the end there's a scene where Dana Kimmell's character is in a closet. Jason hacks through part of the door with an axe, and reaches his hand in only to be stabbed with a large knife.

Remington Steele: Etched in Steele (1982)
(TV Episode)
Steele tells Laura that the author in their case is just like the one in the movie The Shining. He asks her, "Did you see The Shining?" She answers,"Did anyone see it?"

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
When Christine realizes that Erik is the Phantom, while listening to the music in the computer, Robert Englund enters saying the line "How do you like it?" in the same way Jack Nicholson did when he finds Wendy in the Colorado Lounge in "The Shining"

Barton Fink (1991)
As fans of Kubrick, the Coens have included many references to him in their movies. This is a blatant one, the steady- cam shot of the hallway outside of room 621. This is like the shots of the hallways of the hotel in The Shining.

Terminator 2 (1991)
Just before Miles Dyson gets shot into his house, Danny drives his automatic car through the halls of the house, before he sees something terrible. In 'The Shining' the kid of Jack Torrance, who is also named Danny, drives on his three-wheeler through the halls of the hotel, also just before he is going to see somehing terrible.

Jurassic Park (1993)
Tim locks a velociraptor in the meat freezer much like Wendy had to Jack in The Shining. Also Lex tricks a raptor by hiding in a metal cupboard. The raptor charges at her reflection and is stunned. Danny tricked Jack this same way in The Shining.

Nue zhi lian (1993)
Husband with an axe chases wife and son. Almost identical shots where they hide in a room and he breaks through the door with the axe.

The Simpsons: The Last Temptation of Homer (1993)
(TV Episode)
Bart's chalk-board gag in the opening sequence of this episode is "All work and no play makes Bart a dull boy" over and over again getting smaller making a triangle shape in the style of Jack's writings in this movie.

Event Horizon (1997)
A structure causing disturbing hallucinations in people; it succeeds in convincing one of them to do its bidding, turning him into a murderous psychopath; one of the hallucinations involves a woman in a bathtub; blood flowing from an elevator.

SLC Punk! (1998)
'REDRUM' written on Stevo's chest with backwards letters as in the film

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Estes tells the group about how Ben Willis' wife was supposedly murdered in one of the hotel's rooms, similar to the events that supposedly occurred in the Overlook Hotel in the film.

Dream House (1998)
(TV Movie)
knife through the door scene very similar to Jack axing the doors

Blood II: The Chosen (1998)
(Video Game)
The two girls from the movie appear in a hotel, there is also an hatchet in a door and the player quotes the famous Jack Nicholson line.

The X-Files: Redrum (2000)
(TV Episode)
The title of this episode is "murder" spelled backward. This word is also used in "The Shining" in a scene in which the word "redrum" is written on the wall and chanted.

Recess: School's Out (2001)
Grafitti mimics Jack Nicholson's "All Work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Spaced: Leaves (2001)
(TV Episode)
The scene of the new couple looking around the flat with an estate agent is filmed just like the scenes of the main characters being shown around the hotel in this film. They use almost identical dialogue and the music parodies that of this film.

The Suffering (2004)
(Video Game)
After Torque leaves the Insane Asylum, he is in an area with a nine-step staircase. When he walks up it and follows the wall, he runs into an opening that has walls made of vegetation. Torque will then hallucinate and see images of his children. As he follows them, they run down one way. While continuing to follow them he encounters a corpse that is sitting up against the vegetation wall, with an axe laying beside him in a reference to the dead body of Jack. Note: The Shining was also mentioned in the game's bonus material.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
When Stanley Kubrick arrives on Peter's hotel floor, the Overlook Hotel elevator and corridor tracking shots are homaged. A hedge maze is also shown in another sequence.

Birth (2004)
the Lobby man throwing a small ball against the wall in the big lobby and the long hallway-shots with the boy standing in the middle of them

Sideways (2004)
When Myles and Jack are having dinner with Mya and Stefanie and Myles is getting drunk, we see Jack motion his finger in the same way as the boy in the Shining. He says something like "What does this remind you of?" and then says "Redrum."

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Blood flooding out the dungeon when Sing went to find the Beast is a homage to blood flooding out of the elevator in Shining

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004)
(Video Game)
The Ocean House Hotel in the game looks very similar to The Overlook Hotel from The Shining, and both have had a gruesome murder of a family by the father in the past.

The Aviator (2004)
When talking to a waitress at the Cocoanut Grove, Hughes gives his hotel room number as 217. This is an oblique reference to The Shining. The Overlook hotel of The Shining was once owned (and is haunted) by "Horace Derwent", a figure based on Howard Hughes. It's most haunted room is room 217, where Danny is attacked by the woman in the bath. Room 237 was used in the film of The Shining (the novel had the room as 217) to avoid hotel guests being scared of room 217.

Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
(TV Movie)
Flashman uses an axe to chop down the door to where Tom and East are and Flashman looks in through the hole in the door just like Jack Nicholson did and taunts just like he did.

Hostage (2005)
The backwards "R" in the written words "Burn It" are a reference to the backward "R" in Redrum from The Shining.

House M.D.: Control (2005)
(TV Episode)
When Wilson claims Vogler's arrival is a "bad omen" for House, House lists bad omens from scary movies, including "six-year-old-twins in front of an elevator of blood"

The West Wing: Here Today (2005)
(TV Episode)
After his wife mocks him by saying "all work and no play," Santos replies by asking "are you calling me a dull boy?"

Reincarnation (2005)
After Nagisa Sugiura discovers she is the reincarnation of Norihasa Omori, the professor who went on a murderous rampage, she runs into the hallway past a room with the number 237 visibly marked on the door. Room 237 is a reference to The Shining which takes place in a hotel.

Supernatural: Something Wicked (2006)
(TV Episode)
The hospital room with the old woman is room 237, a reference to the room in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining".

Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E. (2006)
(TV Episode)
The Annoyingly Cute Triplets Who Lived Upon the Hill, little girls, are shown in a picture holding hands and staring with vacant expressions on their faces. Their overall look is very reminiscent of the twins in the film.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
The name, Doc Halloran, is a convergence of the character, Danny Torrance's nickname, "Doc", and Scatman Crother's character, "Halloran". Both Doc and Halloran have the ability to "shine".

Tony Hawk's Project 8 (2006)
(Video Game)
There are two creepy twins that talk simultaneously like in this film

Supernatural: The Usual Suspects (2006)
(TV Episode)
Dean mentions "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," while investigating the office and uses the word "redrum" to explain the jumbled message of the ghost.

Supernatural: Playthings (2007)
(TV Episode)
The Winchesters stay in room 237. In the Shining room 237 is the room Dick Hallorann warns the Torrances to avoid. Also, the bar is set up like Lloyd's bar - the dignified bartender, the glowing bar, the bottles set up in the back wall, etc.

Smallville: Trespass (2007)
(TV Episode)
Several references; like the snowstorm and Lana being isolated at the Luthor mansion alone with a safety guard, who later is axing his way through a door to get into the room where Lana is. This particular scene is also made very similar to the famous one in The Shining.

Hot Fuzz (2007)
When Sgt. Angel checks into the hotel, he asks to check in. Joyce's response is a reference to The Shining: "Check in? But you've always been here."

Drive Thru (2007)
"All work and no play makes Horny a dull boy!" and "I'm not gonna hurt ya, I'm gonna bash your brains in, right the fuck in!"

Knocked Up (2007)
Ben Stone compares a celebrity's pubic hair to the "hedge maze in The Shining". Ben also imitates Danny's hands motion and voice.

Psych: The Old and the Restless (2008)
(TV Episode)
The framed picture of Henry Spencer at the old age home is a reference to the final shot of The Shining - the photograph of Jack Nicholson at the Overlook Hotel's 1921 4th of July ball.

Greek: The Wish-Pretzel (2009)
(TV Episode)
Rebecca says that the mostly empty ZBZ house reminds her of the movie, then quotes the film's famous "Redrum" line.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009)
(Video Game)
In the mission 'For the Man Who Has Everything', Yusuf Amir says 'All work and no play makes Yusuf a dull boy'. Also, during the Club Management side-missions, Joni says this to Luis when she seduces him.

30 Rock: Future Husband (2010)
(TV Episode)
Kenneth says that late at night, two little twin girls told him they wanted to play with him forever

Beneath the Dark (2010)
one character smokes Overlook Cigarettes, named after the hotel in The Shining

MacGruber (2010)
Piper flips through MacGruber's notebook only to find the same number on every page

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
When they drive up to the lodge, Jacob says, "I'm gonna make a prediction right now: one of us is gonna start writing a novel, and then we all get snowed in, and then Lou's gonna axe-murder all of us."

Breaking Bad: Sunset (2010)
(TV Episode)
Opening scene: Police dispatch refers to Bobby the police officer by the radio name "KDK-12", repeated a few times. "KDK-12" is also the radio name of the Forest Ranger station that Wendy Torrence attempt contacts in "The Shining", 1980

The New Adventures of Old Christine: Scream (2010)
(TV Episode)
New Christine and Matthew argues over 'who owes who one', Matthew to Christine for being there for him when he was afraid after watching 'The Shining', or the opposite, for Christine taking her seven year old brother to watch the movie in the first place.

Alan Wake (2010)
(Video Game)
A Taken slams an axe through door exactly like Johnny in Shining. Escape through a grass maze like the end of the film.

Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Sergio chases Aaron and Aldous down a long hotel corridor - "IT'S KUBRICKIAN!"

Psych: Heeeeere's Lassie (2012)
(TV Episode)
While Shawn introducing gus as "Eddie Adams from Torrance" is a direct reference to Mark Wahlberg's character from "Boogie Nights" it also works as a dual reference as this episode is a spoof of "The Shining" in which the last name of Jack Nicholson's character is "Torrance"

Jessie: The Whining (2012)
(TV Episode)
Identical twins, and a long creepy hallway on the 13th floor; title reference.

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
When Wyatt rides his trike around the kitchen just like Danny in The Shining. It's a similiar looking bike, plus the director used the same exaggerated rug-tile-rug sounds.

Snowpiercer (2013)
In Snowpiercer, the 1934 recording of Midnight the Stars and You by Ray Noble & His Orchestra is heard on the soundtrack after the apparent death of the murderous Franco the elder. The same recording is heard in The Shining after the actual death of the murderous Jack Torrance.

Holliston: Kevin's Wedding (2013)
(TV Episode)
Adam and Dana both have XBOX gamer tags inspired by THE SHINING. Adam says he is "REDRUM13" and Dana says she is "JACKTORRANCE13".

Hellhounds (2013)
The axe attack at the end is a reference to the climax of The Shining

Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
(Video Game)
An item of clothing available to Trevor, similar to the jacket and shirt combination worn by Jack Torrance, is named "Overlooked Red Blouson" likely referencing The Overlook Hotel

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2013)
(Short)
The skeleton leg hanging out of the door, at the beginning of the film, is a reference to the scene where Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) breaks down the door, with the axe.

Rick and Morty: Lawnmower Dog (2013)
(TV Episode)
The poster behind the sofa in Mr Goldenfold's living room is the same poster that Dick Hallorann has framed over the television in his apartment in The Shining (1980). The poster is of model Azizi Johari from the 70's and is entitled "Supernatural Dream".

Kirstie: Maddie's Agent (2014)
(TV Episode)
Thelma is afraid of twin sisters who live in her apartment building. These twins very much resemble the Grady sisters in both looks and mannerisms. And Thelma says "they make the girls in The Shining look like the Olsens".

Haunted House on Sorority Row (2014)
The ghostly cackling that echoes through the hallway as Dave closes the door and backs away is a subtle tribute to the Room 237 scene from The Shining.

Altar (2014)
After moving into the house, Alec begins to act like Jack in the film.

Life Is Strange (2015)
(Video Game)
In the girls dorm, each room has a small white-board students can write on. On the board for room 217, somebody wrote "REDRUM" and Max mutters, "No way in hell I'm going in there!" This is a direct reference to Stanley Kubrick's 'the Shining.'

The Other One (2016)
(Video)
The film is an homage to this earlier movie

Hawaii Five-0: Umia Ka Hanu (2016)
(TV Episode)
Mentioned by Danny Williams: "The last six years of my life have sort of been like The Shining, which is a film that, if you'd seen, you would know that Jack Nicholson spends the whole movie torturing a young boy named Danny."

The Flash: Shade (2016)
(TV Episode)
Joe, Cisco, Caitlin, H.R. and Cecile attend the Central City Film Society's presentation of The Shining (1980) in Hofherr Park. Barry mentions that the film freaks Cisco out.

Passengers (2016)
The bar scene pays tribute to this movie's bar scene. Similarities include: the bartenders are dressed in red tuxedos, carry themselves in a sophisticated manner, have a strange friendship with the lead male, are not concerned with payment, bartenders are unable to leave. In addition, the primary light source in the bar and lounge shines from below rather than above. Finally, the iconic orange and red carpet design from Overlook Hotel can be seen in the seating area. Also the female character Aurora banging the bridge's door with the hammer.

Dadcula (2016)
(Short)
The DVD for this film is shown on a record player cabinet.

Alien: Covenant (2017)
When Daniels looks at the pictures of David's evil experiments and David appears behind her, it is similar to the scene in which Wendy looks at Jack's manuscript and Jack appears behind her.

Transluminescence (2017)
(Short)
Transluminescence links to the Shining in many different ways. Not only does it feature the whole "character turns crazy thanks to a location" theme, but also the style of symmetrical wide shots is inspired by this movie.

It: Part 2 (1990)
(TV Episode)
in IT, Ben believes that he's kissing Beverly, then he looks in the mirror behind her to see that it's Pennywise and then looks it in the eyes, in The Shining, Jack does the same thing with the 237 woman when she turns from a normal looking woman to the rotting corpes

Dumb and Dumber (1994)
When Lloyd is getting drunk at the bar by himself while he is waiting for Mary, there is a scene where his mannerisms ape those of Jack Torrance when Jack is alone at the bar in the ballroom of the Overlook hotel. When Lloyd leaves the bar, he also notices a framed newspaper story about the Apollo 11 moon landing, and exclaims "We landed on the moon!"

Family Guy: Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater (1999)
(TV Episode)
The two little girls from The Shining appear in a hallway in front of Stewie. The girls say "Come play with us Stewie for ever and ever." To which Stewie replies "All work and no play makes Stewie a dull boy."

Spaced: Beginnings (1999)
(TV Episode)
The two twins who speak in unison and repeat "Forever and ever and ever" are spoofing the twins from this film.

Spaced: Chaos (1999)
(TV Episode)
Tim says "My stepdad was a nice guy!" followed by a flashback of him being chased screaming through a maze by a man limping with an axe shouting his name, spoofing the end of this film.

Spaced: Ends (1999)
(TV Episode)
The camera shots and music when Daisy looks at her type-writer before trying to work on it.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
The main hero's father works in a Shining-esque toilet, wearing butler-like suit. The tone of the discussion that takes place there is also similar to that in The Shining.

Spaced: Gone (2001)
(TV Episode)
Daisy says "Do you think we'll have to wait here all night?", then it cuts to them looking cold sat down lampooning the frozen Jach Nicholson at the end of the Shining, it also says "Tuesday" at the bottom of the screen which spoofs how this film told us what day it was in this way.

Seed of Chucky (2004)
Towards the end of the movie, Chucky knocks a door down with an ax. When there is a big hole in the door, he sticks his head in and grins and says ".....I can't think of anything to say. Fuck it." Then goes on to knock the rest of the door down.

Family Guy: PTV (2005)
(TV Episode)
Stewie rides his trike down the corridors in the hotel, spoofing the way Danny does. The two creepy twins also appear and dive out of the way.

Slaughter Party (2006)
(Video)
When the midget is about to rape a girl he has just killed, he unzips his pants and says "HERES JOHNNY!" A line used by Jack Nicholson when he is breaking through a door with an axe in The Shining (1980).

MythBusters: Mega Movie Myths (2006)
(TV Episode)
They spoof the "Here's Johnny!" with a axe through the bathroom door, with a "Here's Jamie!" with a pickaxe.

Employee of the Month (2006)
Vince staring at employee of the month plaque homage to Nicholson staring at photos

The Venture Bros.: What Goes Down Must Come Up (2008)
(TV Episode)
The bomb shelter's hatch swirling w/ a flood of blood when the old Team Venture hallucinates from the gas is a reference to the movie, as is Col. Gentlemen's hallucination of himself being pleasured by a rat man.

The Dictator (2012)
When Aladeen was being chased by Etra, he hid behind a white door, only to have the frame smashed through. The scene is similar to the part in The Shining where Johnny hacked the frame open.

Superstore: Wedding Day Sale (2016)
(TV Episode)
A Cloud 9 employee stocking shelves looks down the aisle and sees silent twin girls dressed in matching blue dresses. He looks again a moment later and they're gone.

Polygamouse: Episode #1.1 (2016)
(TV Episode)
The final scene features the mice riding a wave of blood out of a lift. The room looks identical to the end of the hallway in The Shining in the scene where blood pours out of the lift.

Keanu (2016)
Mock up parody of scenes from the movie are shown on a poster.

Girls: I Love You Baby (2016)
(TV Episode)
Adam's destruction of the door spoofs the famous axe scene in the film.